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CSC SIGNS MAJOR EXTENSION FOR MERGED AMP AND AXA OPERATIONS

NEWS RELEASE -- MAY 07, 2012

Sydney, Australia, 7 May 2012 – CSC (NYSE: CSC) in Australia announced today that leading wealth management company AMP Limited (ASX: AMP) has extended its relationship with CSC for an additional five years to 2016.

The comprehensive services contract, signed during the fourth quarter of CSC’s fiscal year 2012, is worth more than AUD$220 million, and designed to support the merged operations of AMP and AXA Asia Pacific Holdings' (AXA APH) Australia and New Zealand. The merger, which took place in March 2011, brought together two of the region’s most established businesses.

Today’s announcement expands a six-year, AUD$150 million contract signed in 2009, and continues the original engagement between the two companies that was formed in 1993. Currently CSC provides AMP with fully outsourced managed infrastructure services for mainframe, midrange, network, desktop, service desk and cloud email service, as well as information and system security.

CSC’s services will enable AMP to maximise efficiencies from the integration of all infrastructure services across the new AMP/AXA entity. CSC will continue to deliver advanced and consistent services across all AMP business units, and work has already begun on the technology integration of AMP and AXA.

“AMP and CSC have a longstanding relationship and have continued to work successfully together over the years,” said Lee Barnett, AMP Chief Information Officer. “With a proven track record of service delivery supporting business change, CSC was the obvious choice to assist AMP to support our integration program.”

“This project spotlights the value of highly-effective, collaborative relationships in supporting major corporate structural change,” said Gavin Larkings, President & CEO, CSC Australia. “The value and tenure of this deal has not only set a benchmark for CSC’s capabilities in the financial services sector but for the outsourcing industry in Australia as a whole.

CSC has been able to bring its vast store of AMP-specific expertise, as well as its global resources, to the table in support of this significant development in Australia’s corporate landscape.”

About CSC CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 93,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12 months ended July 1, 2011. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.dxc.technology

AMP is a leading wealth management company operating in Australia and New Zealand, with selective investment management activities in Asia (through AMP Capital Investors) and a growing banking business in Australia.

AMP has two core business units: AMP Financial Services which provides financial planning advice, superannuation, retirement savings and income products, investments, risk insurance and selected banking products; and AMP Capital Investors which manages investments for clients across all the major asset classes including equities, fixed interest, infrastructure, property, diversified funds and multi-manager funds.

In Australia, AMP is a leading provider of retail and corporate superannuation and retirement income products and has one of the largest aligned planner forces in Australia and New Zealand. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.amp.com.au

NEWS RELEASE -- DECEMBER 05, 2011

NEW CSC CLOUD USAGE INDEX PROVIDES RANGE OF INSIGHTS FROM MORE THAN 3,500 CLOUD COMPUTING USERS

FALLS CHURCH, Va., Dec. 5 – A survey of information technology (IT) decision makers around the globe found that the shift to cloud computing is driven primarily by a desire to connect employees through the multitude of computing devices in use today. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, 33 percent of survey respondents cited accessibility to information through multiple devices as the most important reason for their decision to adopt cloud computing.

Rounding out the top motivating factors of cloud adoption within the enterprise were accelerating the speed of business, which was the choice of 21 percent of respondents, and cutting costs, with 17 percent citing it as most important. In the United States, the trend among small businesses was even more pronounced, as nearly half, or 46 percent, of small businesses cited information access through a multitude of devices as the most important reason for adopting the cloud, while 10 percent of small businesses cited cutting costs.

These key findings were among the most prominent from a global survey of 3,645 IT decision makers on cloud computing usage trends conducted by TNS, an independent research company, and funded by CSC. All survey respondents had experience implementing cloud computing within their organizations. Representing an even distribution of small, medium and large private and public sector organizations, the survey respondents were from eight countries — Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Other key survey findings include:

Few organizations downsized IT after cloud adoption. Only 14 percent of companies downsized their IT departments after adopting cloud while 20 percent of organizations hired more cloud experts. The majority of organizations save money with cloud, but savings are small. - 82 percent of all organizations saved money on their last cloud adoption project. - 23 percent of U.S. organizations and 45 percent of U.S. small businesses (fewer than 50 employees) reported no savings while 35 percent of U.S. organizations saved less than $20,000. - Brazilian organizations reaped the most cost benefit with 92 percent saving money, while 70 percent of Australian organizations saved money.

Organizations are into the cloud for the long term. 65 percent of companies choose cloud subscriptions lasting one year or more.

Nearly all businesses boost improvements in IT performance after cloud adoption. - 93 percent of all organizations saw at least one area of improvement in their IT department since adopting cloud. - 52 percent reported increased data center efficiency and utilization, while 47 percent of companies said they witnessed lower operating costs after cloud adoption. - 80 percent experienced improvements within six months of moving to the cloud.

Small businesses face less workforce resistance to cloud adoption. 74 percent of small businesses say that no one in their company resisted the move to the cloud.

Data security concerns do not change significantly after adopting cloud computing. - 25 percent of organizations expressed more concern about data security after adopting cloud services. - 47 percent of organizations in Singapore expressed more concern about data security following cloud adoption, while 47 percent of Brazilian organizations said they are less concerned after switching to cloud.

Employee preparation in advance of cloud implementation varies widely. U.S. and Australia lag in preparing employees for cloud adoption with 80 percent and 81 percent of organizations providing any information or training, while 97 percent of Brazilian organizations prepared their employees.

Half of U.S. government IT workers say they’ve moved work to the cloud. 48 percent of U.S. government agencies moved at least one workflow to the cloud following the new requirement that U.S. federal agencies adopt a “cloud-first” policy.

For the purpose of the survey, cloud computing was defined as a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet and promotes convenient, easy access and rapid provision with minimal management or service provider interaction. Its five essential characteristics are: (1) on-demand self-service, (2) broad network access, (3) resource pooling, (4) rapid elasticity, and (5) measured service.

and more findings from the CSC Cloud Index survey...

About CSC CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 93,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12 months ended July 1, 2011. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.dxc.technology

TNS is the global leader in custom market research delivering actionable insights and research-based business advice to clients around the globe so they can make more effective business decisions.

TNS offers comprehensive industry knowledge within the Consumer, Technology, Finance, Automotive and Political & Social sectors, supported by a unique product offering that stretches across the entire range of marketing and business issues, specializing in product development & innovation, brand & communication, stakeholder management, retail & shopper, and qualitative research. Delivering best-in-class service across more than 80 countries.

CSC EXPANDS VIRTUAL DESKTOP PORTFOLIO WITH VMWARE SERIES

NEWS RELEASE -- OCTOBER 19, 2011

CSC has announced the expansion of its virtual desktop portfolio to include a new series based upon VMware™ View 5 running on the Vblock platform from VCE.

Speaking at vForum® 2011 in Sydney today, Peter Allen, CSC's Acting President, Managed Services Sector and President, Global Sales and Marketing said, "Our clients are demanding more deployment options to support a wide variety of end user needs. Working with our alliance partners, VMware, EMC, and Cisco, CSC has responded to this market need by expanding its virtual desktop portfolio to include the VMware Series which complements our existing virtual desktop services and makes CSC the first tier one service provider to offer both VMware View and Citrix options."

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With this announcement, CSC now offers more ways for users with differing work styles to access their applications and data from a wide range of networked devices with all the protections of data centre practices and the freedom of cloud services.

“We are excited to work with CSC to deliver our customers the high-fidelity modern desktop experience offered by VMware View™ 5 in a ready-to-use service that supports both enterprise and cloud delivery vectors – CSC Dynamic Desktop,” said Duncan Bennet, Vice President and Managing Director, VMware Australia and New Zealand. “Our partnership with CSC helps us continue to drive our data center virtualization expertise out to the end user to simplify IT manageability and control while giving end users the freedom they need to get their jobs done.”

“In studying the adoption of hosted virtual desktops in the enterprise we have seen that when the values of business agility, security and new freedoms for the workforce are understood, decisions to deploy move forward,” said Ian Song, senior research analyst, IDC. “Now we see CSC with their partners continuing to be first movers, and as the only tier one service provider with VMware View and Citrix options, the market leaders.”

CSC continues to expand ways of serving enterprise users with the latest technologies to enable a well-designed SmartWorkPlaceSM with a focus on increasing business agility, security and cost effectiveness.

The new VMware series can be deployed in three ways:

• CSC Dynamic Desktop is a managed service for large scale traditional datacentre implementations. It is best suited for organisations requiring full-scale deployment for a population of one thousand or more desktop users. This solution supports the CSC desktop strategy of unifying services with efficient service tools and processes supporting the entire desktop estate from end-to-end; both virtual and traditional.

• CSC CloudDesktop is offered in a “pay-as-you-go” model on the CSC public and private clouds. The public cloud is a unique solution for companies with workgroups with as few as 50 people.

• For organisations with specific compliance or security requirements CSC CloudDesktop is also available on the CSC BizCloud, the only on-premise private cloud billed as-a-service.

CSC virtual desktop services enable organisations to achieve compliance, business continuity, and disaster recovery because data is centrally secured and not distributed on vulnerable, mobile devices. These solutions enable clients to advance their green IT agenda by centralising computing power, reducing on-site desktop support, and making it possible to use desktop devices (thin clients) that use less energy than a traditional PC. All services will be available in 2012.

About CSC CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 93,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12 months ended July 1, 2011. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.dxc.technology

VMware View and vForum are registered trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organisations to energise businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere® – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2010 revenues of US$2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

Under the new three-year contract, worth AUD $15 million, CSC will provide LeasePlan with steady state application management and support services for their SAP customer relationship management leasing system.

“CSC was selected following a rigorous review process. CSC’s unique selling point was the differentiation they were able to leverage via CSC’s global SAP Finance Leasing Centre of Excellence based out of Germany,” said Spiro Haralambopoulos, managing director, LeasePlan Australia. “An engaged delivery team gave us the confidence they could deliver on the service and a competitive price point was achieved through the establishment of an effective service delivery model.”

“Our aim is to provide LeasePlan with a consistent and stable service that will consolidate the performance of their critical business systems and allow them to leverage their investment by rolling out a shared service model to their 30 global operating subsidiaries,” said Gavin Larkings, president, CSC in Australia. “We look forward to this new relationship with LeasePlan, especially as the company strives to improve its business offerings and streamline its work with customers.”

As the preferred fleet management partner to the Commonwealth Government, leading corporates and smaller businesses around the country, LeasePlan employs nearly 400 staff and manages around 90,000 vehicles with assets exceeding AUD$1.2 billion.

Under the new three-year contract, worth AUD $15 million, CSC will provide LeasePlan with steady state application management and support services for their SAP customer relationship management leasing system.

“CSC was selected following a rigorous review process. CSC’s unique selling point was the differentiation they were able to leverage via CSC’s global SAP Finance Leasing Centre of Excellence based out of Germany,” said Spiro Haralambopoulos, managing director, LeasePlan Australia. “An engaged delivery team gave us the confidence they could deliver on the service and a competitive price point was achieved through the establishment of an effective service delivery model.”

“Our aim is to provide LeasePlan with a consistent and stable service that will consolidate the performance of their critical business systems and allow them to leverage their investment by rolling out a shared service model to their 30 global operating subsidiaries,” said Gavin Larkings, president, CSC in Australia. “We look forward to this new relationship with LeasePlan, especially as the company strives to improve its business offerings and streamline its work with customers.”

As the preferred fleet management partner to the Commonwealth Government, leading corporates and smaller businesses around the country, LeasePlan employs nearly 400 staff and manages around 90,000 vehicles with assets exceeding AUD$1.2 billion.

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 93,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12 months ended July 1, 2011. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.dxc.technology

CSC SIGNS $25 MILLION CONTRACT WITH POWERCOR-CITIPOWER

NEWS RELEASE -- AUGUST 22, 2011

SYDNEY, Australia, 22 August 2011 – CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that Powercor-CitiPower, a subsidiary of the Cheung Kong group of companies (HKSE:1038.HK), has extended its information technology (IT) services contract with CSC. The new five-year contract, which was awarded during CSC’s fiscal 2012 first quarter, has a total value of AUD$25 million.

Under the terms of the contract, CSC will provide Powercor-CitiPower a range of IT-related services, including infrastructure managed services and specialised service offerings such as security, architecture and program management.

Powercor-CitiPower is Victoria’s largest electricity distributor providing services to over 1 million customers in the Melbourne CBD, inner suburbs, and in Central and Western Victoria.

"CSC’s partnership approach, cultural fit and long term commitment to the relationship has been key to our 10 year tenure,” said Glen McLean, General Manager IT Services, Powercor-CitiPower.

“Powercor-CitiPower will continue to evolve its service capability as part of extending the CSC relationship and will increase the use of CSC’s Global Centers of Excellence to improve our ability to respond and scale to industry demands. Powercor-CitiPower will also mature its Service Model by integrating best of breed solutions and processes to monitor and manage an increasingly complex technology environment,” added McLean.

System availability, performance and security are critical in the provisioning of electricity distribution services. CSC currently manages Powercor-CitiPower’s infrastructure, including hosting production systems at CSC’s Melbourne Data Center. Through the Powercor-CitiPower Shared Services Group, CSC provides IT services to power distribution companies including the Electricity Trust of South Australia and Wellington Electricity.

“CSC is proud to be working with Powercor-CitiPower as they continue to transform their electricity distribution business systems and processes and realise opportunities to provide value to consumers with emerging trends and technologies within the utility sector,” said Gavin Larkings, President & CEO, CSC in Australia. “We look forward to our continued relationship with Powercor-CitiPower and being the company’s technology partner for the digitisation of power distribution technology.”

In 2002, Powercor-CitiPower commenced a major program to deploy Advanced Interval Metering (AIM) Infrastructure across their Victorian customer base. This programme required an overhaul of corporate systems, deployment of systems integration technology and a wireless mesh network to 1.1 million Victorian customers. The technology enables interval metering data to be collected every 30 minutes and enables consumers and distributors to effectively manage power consumption. CSC applied its capabilities in technical systems integration, architecture and design, security as well as financial and programme management to contribute to Powercor-CitiPower’s AIM program.

About CSC CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 93,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12 months ended July 1, 2011. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.dxc.technology

CSC LAUNCHES BIZCLOUD™ IN AUSTRALIA - THE INDUSTRY’S FIRST ON-PREMISE PRIVATE CLOUD CHARGED AS A SERVICE

NEWS RELEASE -- AUGUST 16, 2011

Sydney, Australia, 16 August 2011 – CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced the expansion and availability of BizCloud™ in Australia, the first on-premise private cloud to be charged as a service.

BizCloud combines the privacy, security and control of a private cloud with the agility, convenience and commercial model of a public cloud.

Ready for workloads in 10 weeks, BizCloud accelerates the adoption of a private cloud by businesses and government agencies, eliminating lengthy implementations and the need to budget for capital investment.

By offering this service, CSC has taken the work out of implementing a private cloud and overcome the objections that security conscious organisations usually raise around cloud adoption.

Initially launched in North America, BizCloud is now also available in the UK, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

BizCloud, a VMware vCloud Datacentre Service, gives users all the components needed for a private cloud, preconfigured, integrated and tested, on their own premises behind their firewall.

Customers subscribe to the service, pay only for what they use and can choose from different levels of service-level agreement, provisioning and support. All workloads are catered for and can be scaled up or down according to demand.

BizCloud features CloudCompute, CSC’s new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) architecture which is also deployed in the CSC cloud enabled datacentres. This allows users to take advantage of a hybrid approach by keeping mission critical applications on premise with BizCloud while using CSC’s off premise cloud for disaster recovery, business continuity or for setting up agile development and test environments.

CloudCompute, a VMware vCloud Datacentre Service, delivers compute, storage and network resources as a service to support any application and because of the security and service level agreements is especially capable for hosting mission critical and business critical workloads.

The CloudCompute infrastructure is built on the powerful, standardised cloud fabric, Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms, from VCE. Vblock platforms integrate leading virtualisation software from VMware; unified networking, security and computing from Cisco; and storage, security and management technologies from EMC.

“BizCloud and CloudCompute provide the centerpiece of the modern virtualised datacentre,” said Siki Giunta, vice president of Cloud Computing and Software Services, CSC. “There is a model for every organisation — whether you want self-managed or a managed service option, or you want private, public or a hybrid cloud, CSC is following through on our promise of delivering the right cloud, the right way. With CSC, every organisation can easily make the initial move to ‘as a service’ — infrastructure, platform and software on-demand.”

Commenting on the launch of BizCloud in Australia, Bob Hayward, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer for CSC in Australia said, “Australian organisations have been uncertain about the move from traditional IT to the Cloud. In an Australian first, customers can now take a safe first step to a preconfigured, integrated and tested private cloud on their own premises in just ten weeks.”

“IT delivery is transforming at a record pace and, by leveraging a converged infrastructure platform and solutions from VCE, CSC is accelerating the rate at which its customers can take advantage of the cost and flexibility benefits of cloud-based computing,” said Todd Pavone, senior vice president, Products and Solutions, VCE.

“For enterprises, it has been difficult to obtain the economic benefits of a public cloud which is delivered to them as a private cloud,” said Robert Mahowald, vice president, SaaS & Cloud Services, IDC. “CSC has been very strategic with this announcement. They engaged customers in a discussion about their business needs and developed a flexible solution that addresses those needs spot on. BizCloud and CSC's related services break new ground for IT buyers trying to navigate the road to data centre transformation.”

CloudCompute is offered in three packages: Standard, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. CloudCompute enables organisations to align workload requirements with the right CloudCompute package and service level. Customers mix and match the tiers of service with guaranteed availability levels from 99 to 99.95 percent. All CSC cloud models are billed as a service from a standard rate card.

Because BizCloud shares the same infrastructure as the CSC public and off-premise private cloud models, organisations can focus on moving workloads to the right cloud model based on the security and control those workloads require.

CSC today also announced the appointment of Paul Gibbs as general manager, Cloud Computing and Services for CSC in Australia. Paul will be responsible for deploying CSC's cloud computing strategy and growing CSC's client footprint in Australia. He will report to Siki Giunta and work closely with Bob Hayward to advance CSC's leadership position in Cloud services locally.

“Paul's extensive client services experience will be an asset as CSC helps clients make decisions about the shift from traditional IT to emerging services such as the Cloud,” Giunta commented.

About BizCloudBizCloud features CloudCompute, CSC’s new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) architecture which is deployed in the CSC cloud enabled datacentres. CloudCompute delivers compute, storage and network resources as a service to support any application and is especially capable for hosting mission critical and business critical workloads. The CloudCompute infrastructure is built on the Vblock™ Infrastructure Platform from VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel.

Vblock platforms from VCEintegrate the leading network, compute, storage, virtualisation, security, and management technologies from Cisco, EMC and VMware. CSC’s partnership with VCE enables the economic model that is unique to BizCloud.

About CSCCSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 93,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12 months ended July 1, 2011. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.dxc.technology

CSC FINALISES ISOFT ACQUISITION

NEWS RELEASE -- AUGUST 01, 2011

Sydney, Australia, 1 August 2011 – CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced it has closed the acquisition of iSOFT Group Limited (ASX: ISF), one of the world’s largest providers of advanced healthcare IT solutions. The acquisition complements and strengthens CSC’s market-leading software products and healthcare integration and services portfolio, and enhances its healthcare research and development capabilities. It also accelerates CSC’s strategic growth plan and reinforces the company as a very strong player in healthcare information technology.

Adding iSOFT’s 3,000 global employees, including those from major research and development centers in India, Spain, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Central Europe, expands CSC’s capability to support existing customers, develop more innovative solutions, and adds a robust set of clients in new and emerging markets.

More than 13,000 healthcare providers and governments in 40 countries use iSOFT’s e-health software solutions to manage patient information and drive improvements in their core processes. With the expertise and experience of more than 1,000 development professionals and more than 200 clinicians, iSOFT solutions touch more than 200 million patients across five continents every day, and its systems are installed in over 8,000 hospitals and clinics. This scale has allowed iSOFT to keep abreast of the latest trends in healthcare technology and practices and translate them into innovative and practical solutions.

“The completion of this acquisition is a milestone in the expansion of our global healthcare business,” said Michael W. Laphen, CSC chairman, president and CEO. “CSC is at the forefront of emerging healthcare technologies, giving our clients access to an expanded range of innovative capabilities.”

“Joining forces with CSC is a major step forward for iSOFT, putting us in a position to accelerate the delivery of our Innovation Agenda”, said Andrea Fiumicelli, former CEO of iSOFT and newly-appointed Chief Operating Officer of CSC’s healthcare business. “By combining both organisations we have created a major force in the healthcare industry with significant opportunities for future growth through richer solutions and much enhanced access to the global market. Building on this platform, our ambition is to become one of the world’s leading healthcare IT suppliers.”

About CSC CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 91,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.0 billion for the 12 months ended April 1, 2011. For more information, visit the company's website at www.dxc.technology.

About iSOFT Group Prior to its acquisition by CSC, iSOFT Group Limited was the largest health information technology company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, and among the world’s biggest providers of advanced application solutions in modern healthcare economies.

iSOFT works with healthcare professionals to design and build software applications that answer all of the difficult questions posed by today’s healthcare delivery challenges. Our solutions act as a catalyst for change, supporting free exchange of critical information across diverse care settings and participating organisations.

Today, more than 13,000 provider organisations in over 40 countries use iSOFT’s solutions to manage patient information and drive improvements in their core processes. The group’s sustainable development is delivered through careful planning, in-depth analysis of the market, and anticipation of our clients’ evolving requirements. Our business is driven by the collective talent, experience and commitment of more than 3,000 specialists in 19 countries worldwide.

A global network of iSOFT subsidiaries, supported by an extensive partner network, provides substantial experience of national healthcare markets. As a result, we offer our clients comprehensive knowledge of local market requirements in terms of culture, language, working practices, regulation and organisational structure.

CSC RECEIVES EU APPROVAL TO ACQUIRE ISOFT

NEWS RELEASE -- JUNE 29, 2011

Sydney Australia, June 22 – CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced it has received unconditional clearance from the European Commission (EU) to proceed with the acquisition of iSOFT, one of the world’s largest providers of advanced healthcare IT solutions.

EU clearance means that all regulatory consents to the transaction have been received. Completion of the transaction remains subject to gaining shareholder approval and final Court assent in Australia. Please refer to the Scheme documentation lodged with the ASX on 14 June 2011 for an indicative timetable.

The acquisition, once completed, will complement and strengthen CSC’s market-leading software products and healthcare integration and services portfolio, while enhancing its healthcare research and development capabilities. It will also accelerate CSC’s strategic growth plan in the Life Sciences market and reinforce the company as a very strong player in healthcare information technology.

About CSCCSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 91,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.0 billion for the 12 months ended April 1, 2011. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.dxc.technology.

About iSOFT GroupiSOFT Group Limited (ASX: ISF) is the largest health information technology company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, and among the world’s biggest providers of advanced application solutions in modern healthcare economies.

iSOFT works with healthcare professionals to design and build software applications that answer all of the difficult questions posed by today’s healthcare delivery challenges. Our solutions act as a catalyst for change, supporting free exchange of critical information across diverse care settings and participating organizations.

Today, more than 13,000 provider organizations in over 40 countries use iSOFT’s solutions to manage patient information and drive improvements in their core processes. The group’s sustainable development is delivered through careful planning, in-depth analysis of the market, and anticipation of our clients’ evolving requirements. Our business is driven by the collective talent, experience and commitment of more than 3,300 specialists in 19 countries worldwide.

A global network of iSOFT subsidiaries, supported by an extensive partner network, provides substantial experience of national healthcare markets. As a result, we offer our clients comprehensive knowledge of local market requirements in terms of culture, language, working practices, regulation and organizational structure.

All statements in this press release and in all future press releases that do not directly and exclusively relate to historical facts constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements represent the Company’s intentions, plans, expectations and beliefs, and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside the Company’s control. These factors could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. For a written description of these factors, see the section titled “Risk Factors” in CSC’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 2, 2010 and any updating information in subsequent SEC filings. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update these forward-looking statements whether as a result of subsequent event or otherwise, except as required by law.

CSC TO DEPLOY PATIENT ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA’S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

NEWS RELEASE -- MAY 30, 2011

SYDNEY, Australia, 30 May 2011 – CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that Western Australia’s (WA) Department of Health has awarded the company an information technology (IT) services contract worth AUD$6.3million.

Under the new contract, CSC will deploy WA Department of Health’s Patient Administration System (PAS) to two hospital campuses inWestern Australia this year. The WA Department of Health’s PAS is a significant sub-program of Western Australia’s eHealth reform program.

The vision for the PAS is the creation of a single application base across all of WA Health using common processes and one source of reference data. As a result, clinicians and staff will have up to date and integrated information to provide better patient care.

To assist in achieving this vision, the WA Department of Health has engaged CSC as its systems integration partner to work with the vendor of the chosen PAS software solution (iSOFT) and to augment the existing WA Department of Health PAS project team.

“CSC has implemented iSOFT PAS products into several NHS hospitals and Primary Care Trusts across the UK and Europe,” said Lisa Pettigrew, National Director of Health Services at CSC Australia. “With substantial clinical and administrative health system deployment experience, CSC reduces implementation risks for our clients by using a standard and repeatable PAS deployment process that embodies best practice.”

In addition to the deployment of the iSOFT webPAS solution, CSC will deliver a range of services including Program and Quality Management services, PAS Testing and Training, Technical Readiness, Patient Index Analysis, and development of a Learning Management System.

“We are delighted about this new contract and our ongoing growth in Western Australia,” said Gavin Larkings, president of CSC inAustralia. “With 1,000 employees and some of our largest clients based in WA, CSC continues to grow from strength to strength in this region. WA is a very important state for CSC and we will continue to invest in this region.”

About CSC

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 91,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.0 billion for the 12 months ended April 1, 2011. For more information, visit the company's website at www.dxc.technology.

NEWS RELEASE -- MAY 09, 2011

FALLS CHURCH, Va., May 9 – CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced the availability of its Celeriti Customer and Celeriti Deposits products and the delivery of the software to its first client. Celeriti, which was unveiled in June 2010, is an end-to-end suite of software products, components and services to help financial institutions of all sizes realize the benefits of modern enterprise banking, cards, payments and lending platforms.

For banks wanting to undertake core systems renewal projects, Celeriti provides significant advantages over the more traditional “rip and replace” approach. In addition to deployment within an accelerated time frame, banks are able to renew their core systems at significantly lower cost and risk. CSC’s progressive modernization approach allows Celeriti to be implemented on an incremental basis and aligns the deployment of Celeriti components with the business imperatives. Further, it allows a gradual transformation of the environment, reducing the operational impact and complexity associated with replacement programs.

“The growing need for core modernization presents banks’ IT management with the complexities and risk of implementing new core systems and migrating tens of millions of customers to new systems and databases,” said Robert Hunt, senior research director of Retail Banking & Cards for TowerGroup. “Large banks cannot consider ‘big bang’ conversions because of the risk of extended customer service disruption arising from conversion or software errors. In fact, the complexity of core replacement has been compared to changing the engines on a passenger jet while the plane is still in the air. Simply put, banks must develop and execute a core modernization plan that minimizes the risk of customer service disruptions. Large banks, then, must develop a phased implementation plan for core systems modernization.”

“Some banks are spending upwards of $1 billion on core systems replacement projects when higher business benefits could be delivered faster and at a fraction of the cost using an incremental approach,” said Paul Leadbetter, global chief technology officer of CSC’s Banking and Credit Services Division. “For banks wanting to deliver a true multi-brand and differentiated experience, Celeriti is customer centric and delivers personalized, accurate and timely content to all of the delivery channels, allowing banks to broaden their services offerings to customers and grow wallet share.”

Celeriti leverages CSC’s industry experience and software that have been the mainstay core banking and cards management solutions for more than 400 banks around the world. The systems inherently support multi-brand and real-time transaction processing in a highly robust environment. Celeriti also offers a dynamic customer experience through all of the customer touchpoints and provides full access to information and a broad range of services.

Celeriti helps banks accelerate time to market with new products and address regulatory change through an integrated Web portal user interface, service-oriented architecture (SOA) business processes and Web services, business intelligence and data warehouse, business rules and parameters. Delivering these out-of-the-box capabilities is a huge accelerator to core systems renewal programs, while recognizing that bank environments are heterogeneous. For more information, visit www.dxc.technology/celeriti.

About CSC

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions and Services, the Managed Services Sector and the North American Public Sector. CSC’s advanced capabilities include system design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. The company has been recognized as a leader in the industry, including being named by FORTUNE Magazine as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies for Information Technology Services (2011). Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 93,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12 months ended Dec. 31, 2010. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.dxc.technology.

CSC TO SUPPORT WORLD TRADE CENTER HEALTH PROGRAM

NEWS RELEASE -- MAY 04, 2011

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Award Recognizes Unique CSC Qualifications

FALLS CHURCH, Va., May 4 – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has awarded CSC (NYSE: CSC) a task order to support the World Trade Center Health Program. The contract has a one year base period and four one-year options, bringing the estimated total value to $80 million. This work falls under the CDC Information Management Services indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for management consulting services, awarded to CSC in September 2010.

The World Trade Center Health Program is a federal initiative to support health monitoring and treatment for emergency responders, recovery and cleanup workers, residents, building occupants and area workers who were directly impacted and adversely affected by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York City, N.Y., Shanksville, Pa., and Washington, D.C.

“CSC is honored to have the opportunity to help those affected by the September 11 terrorist attacks,” said Mike Gaffney, president of CSC’s North American Public Sector Civil Group. “As a leader in complex program implementation, administration and health claims processing, with a unique specialty in workers compensation programs, CSC’s experience and expertise uniquely qualifies us to implement this system efficiently and effectively.”

Under the terms of the agreement, CSC will provide program administration support and develop, implement and manage a claims processing solution. Services also include community and provider education and outreach, data analytics, regulatory analysis and contact center support. Work will be based in New York City, N.Y., Albany, N.Y., Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, Ga.

The CSC team includes Health Research and Analysis of Rockville, Md.; 2020 Company LLC of Falls Church, Va.; MayaTech Corporation of Silver Spring, Md.; Plexis Healthcare Systems of Ashland, Ore.; and Envoy LLC, an Emdeon company based in Nashville, Tenn.

About CSC

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions and Services, the Managed Services Sector and the North American Public Sector. CSC’s advanced capabilities include system design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. The company has been recognized as a leader in the industry, including being named by FORTUNE Magazine as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies for Information Technology Services (2010). Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 93,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12 months ended December 31, 2010. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.dxc.technology.

METROPOLITAN CHICAGO HEALTHCARE COUNCIL TO DEVELOP NATION’S LARGEST METRO HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF CARE AND COST EFFICIENCIES

NEWS RELEASE -- APRIL 25, 2011

CHICAGO — April 25, 2011 — The Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council (MCHC) is pleased to announce its decision to develop the MetroChicago Health Information Exchange (HIE), which is expected to be the largest metropolitan HIE in the nation, serving more than 9.4 million people. The new exchange will use Microsoft Corp., CSC and HealthUnity Corp. technologies to drive quality care improvements and cost efficiencies for Chicago healthcare consumers.

The MCHC recognizes the potential for HIEs to improve individual care and population health through selected technologies that support both goals. By enabling the flow of data across healthcare organizations, the MetroChicago HIE expects positive outcomes due to more comprehensive views of patient information. These include decreased costs from fewer redundant tests across care settings, reduction in time spent gathering information about patients, and greater efficiency in identifying patients requiring ongoing ambulatory care.

“MCHC is charting a new course with the MetroChicago HIE,” said Mary Anne Kelly, vice president of MCHC. “The HIE will be one of the largest in the country and will allow our region’s healthcare market to improve efficiency by creating a network where health information flows with the patient, no matter where care is received. The reaction from local hospitals has been overwhelmingly positive. Seventy percent of hospitals in the Chicago metro area have already become founding members of the HIE, which is a testament to area healthcare organizations’ stalwart commitment to improving quality and patient safety.”

The MetroChicago HIE will use Microsoft Amalga, an enterprise health intelligence platform, to aggregate and present a unified view of patient medical history data at the time and point of care, and CSC will provide project management, implementation, hosting and support services. Software components from HealthUnity will work in combination with Amalga to provide foundational HIE services and continuity of care document exchange services. These technologies will give the MetroChicago HIE a powerful engine to quickly aggregate and analyze data across patient cohorts and populations, enabling care transformation.

“As the industry continues to focus on delivering value — better care at the same, or lower, costs — the flow of data across organizational boundaries and the ability to analyze and report on data across patient populations is increasingly important,” said Peter Neupert, corporate vice president of the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft. “MCHC is leading its healthcare provider members to adopt technologies that can help drive value throughout the care delivery process, enabling a healthier population.”

“CSC is looking forward to delivering a powerful solution that gives MCHC the ability to analyze data across populations, enhance quality of care within that community and use the data to improve coordination across the continuum of care,” said Mark Roman, president of CSC Global Healthcare Group. “Our experience designing, building and running the nation’s first health information exchange in Massachusetts, and advanced capabilities in software-as-a-service cloud delivery platforms, will bring technology to deliver better information for better decisions to improve patient care for MCHC and residents of the Greater Chicago Metropolitan area.”

The MetroChicago HIE will initially build use cases that are aligned with meaningful use incentives, as outlined in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, passed in 2009. The goal is to implement functionality that offers value to the largest number of stakeholders and that can be deployed quickly. The first two use cases to be deployed will be Clinical Summary — Emergency Department (ED) Linking, allowing authorized healthcare providers to see a consolidated view of the patient’s medical history, with input regarding test results, problems and medication information from other providers across the region. This information is crucial, especially during medical emergencies, when patients may not be able to tell providers about their health history, medications they take or allergies.

And, because of available information from the ED, Public Health Reporting can be supported to monitor emerging outbreaks of influenza or disease patterns for early surveillance across the MetroChicago region. More than 66 hospitals and major outpatient care organizations have submitted letters of intent to MCHC to participate in this industry-led initiative. Participating organizations will fund the HIE, as opposed to short-term grant funding from government or other outside entities.

Join the Conversation

A Twitter session accompanying this announcement will be held tomorrow, April 26, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Central Standard Time and hosted at the Microsoft Connected Health Conference. To follow and participate in the conversation use the hashtag #HIEChicago2011.

About Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council

The Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council is a membership and service association comprising more than 150 hospitals and health care organizations working together, since 1935, to improve the delivery of health care services in the greater metropolitan Chicago area.

About CSC

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 93,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12 months ended December 31, 2010.

About HealthUnity

Founded in 2004, HealthUnity Corp. is a leading provider of standards-based MPI, HIE and PHR software, services and solutions.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

CSC ENTERS INTO AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE ISOFT

NEWS RELEASE -- APRIL 01, 2011

SYDNEY, NSW, April 1 – CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding equity of iSOFT Group Limited (ASX: ISF), one of the world’s largest providers of advanced healthcare IT solutions, by way of a court-approved scheme of arrangement. The acquisition will complement and strengthen CSC’s market-leading software products and healthcare integration and services portfolio, while enhancing its healthcare research and development capabilities. It will also accelerate CSC’s strategic growth plan in the Life Sciences market and reinforce the company as a very strong player in healthcare information technology.

The offer to iSOFT shareholders is at A$0.17 per share in cash. Closing of the transaction is expected during CSC’s Q2FY12, and is subject to various conditions, including, among others, iSOFT shareholder approval and certain Australian and EU regulatory approvals.

Adding iSOFT’s 3,300 global employees including those from major research and development centers in India, Spain, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Central Europe, will expand CSC’s capability to support existing customers, develop more innovative solutions, and add a robust set of clients in new and emerging markets.

“The combination of these companies will further establish CSC as an innovative leader in global healthcare IT,” said Michael W. Laphen, CSC chairman, president and chief executive officer. “Through our combined experience in global healthcare delivery, complementary world-class healthcare software solutions, and enhanced capabilities in system integration, outsourcing and process management, we are forming a compelling lifecycle of services to better serve our global clients and improve patient care.”

More than 13,000 healthcare providers and governments in 40 countries use iSOFT’s e-health software solutions to manage patient information and drive improvements in their core processes. With the expertise and experience of more than 1,300 development professionals and more than 200 clinicians, iSOFT solutions touch more than 200 million patients across five continents every day, and its systems are installed in more than 8,000 hospitals and clinics. This scale has allowed iSOFT to keep abreast of the latest trends in healthcare technology and practices and translate them into innovative and practical solutions.

"iSOFT’s Electronic Health Record software and services, coupled with CSC’s global healthcare expertise and delivery capabilities, will create a very powerful force in the global healthcare market to enhance the provision of integrated care," said Andrea Fiumicelli, chief executive officer of iSOFT. “This is a great development for iSOFT’s employees as they will have the opportunity to continue their important work in healthcare IT whilst developing their careers across CSC’s global business.”

“When completed, this acquisition will be a critical step in the expansion of our global healthcare business. CSC will be at the forefront of emerging healthcare technologies, giving our clients access to an expanded range of healthcare capabilities and continuing our journey of bringing the vision of a single patient record to life,” Laphen added.

Perella Weinberg Partners LP is acting as financial advisor to CSC and Jones Day is acting as legal advisor to CSC.

About CSC

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions and Services, the Managed Services Sector and the North American Public Sector. CSC’s advanced capabilities include system design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. The company has been recognized as a leader in the industry, including being named by FORTUNE Magazine as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies for Information Technology Services (2011). Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 93,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12 months ended December 31, 2010. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.dxc.technology.

About iSOFT Group

iSOFT Group Limited (ASX: ISF) is the largest health information technology company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, and among the world’s biggest providers of advanced application solutions in modern healthcare economies.

iSOFT works with healthcare professionals to design and build software applications that answer all of the difficult questions posed by today’s healthcare delivery challenges. Our solutions act as a catalyst for change, supporting free exchange of critical information across diverse care settings and participating organizations.

Today, more than 13,000 provider organizations in over 40 countries use iSOFT’s solutions to manage patient information and drive improvements in their core processes. The group’s sustainable development is delivered through careful planning, in-depth analysis of the market, and anticipation of our clients’ evolving requirements. Our business is driven by the collective talent, experience and commitment of more than 3,300 specialists in 19 countries worldwide.

A global network of iSOFT subsidiaries, supported by an extensive partner network, provides substantial experience of national healthcare markets. As a result, we offer our clients comprehensive knowledge of local market requirements in terms of culture, language, working practices, regulation and organizational structure.

All statements in this press release and in all future press releases that do not directly and exclusively relate to historical facts constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements represent the Company’s intentions, plans, expectations and beliefs, and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside the Company’s control. These factors could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. For a written description of these factors, see the section titled “Risk Factors” in CSC’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 2, 2010 and any updating information in subsequent SEC filings. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update these forward-looking statements whether as a result of subsequent event or otherwise, except as required by law.